Sentences with phrase «less heart attacks»

It does not say that people with sleep apnea have less heart attacks, and can not say this.»

A lot less thrilling it may be but you'll get to have less heart attacks and more of your blood pressure under control.

Not exact matches

The swim workout was the hardest physical thing I've ever done, and I once rode a 100 - mile Gran Fondo, with four mountains and 11,000 total feet of climbing, less than five months after I had a heart attack.

Care providers which manage to treat the entirety of a heart attack episode for less than the target price get to net the associated savings; the ones that don't have to pay the difference back to Medicare.

Help someone with diabetes have access to medication and health care & they are much less likely to go on disability due to stroke, amputations, or heart attack.

They lower the risk of stroke and heart attacks by reducing blood pressure, making blood platelets less likely to clot, and improving blood flow to the heart and brain.

From 2007/8, there was no superstar, talk less of world class, in the squad, but it was never this bad, even with watching at risk of heart attacks of those days.

Winthrop (closed +10.5) almost pulled off an unlikely backdoor cover and their coach almost gave under bettors a heart attack when he decided to foul despite trailing by double - digits with less than one minute remaining.

However, while Lassana Diarra is performing impressively in the heart of the midfield for OM, the Phoceens have been less than impressive in attack and may well opt to invest in their attack come the January window.

Women who spend at least two years of their lives breast - feeding are less likely to suffer a heart attack than those who don't breast - feed at all, according to a new Harvard Medical School study.

Vogel, 72, died Sunday morning, less than three months after recuperating from a heart attack.

The Democrat ran in a special election that year to replace her husband, Walter Capps, who died of a heart attack less than a year into his first term in Congress.

After pooling the results of 27 trials involving 165,149 people, the meta - analysis reported that people are 21 percent less likely to suffer a serious vascular event such as a heart attack, stroke or bypass surgery after their cholesterol drops by the amount that might be expected after taking statins for a year than are similar people who do not take the pills.

Following the Lancet publication in 2012, Wright and colleagues recalculated the numbers and did not find a mortality benefit among people who had less than a 20 percent chance of having a heart attack in the next five years, based on established prediction measures.

Using drugs to lower systolic blood pressure to less than 120 millimeters of mercury cut people's risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular woes by 25 percent, researchers report November 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Women using hormone replacement therapy were also 20 percent more likely to have a coronary calcium score of zero (the lowest possible score, indicating a low likelihood of heart attack) and 36 percent less likely to have a coronary calcium score above 399 (indicative of severe atherosclerosis and high heart attack risk).

If you suffer a heart attack in a crowd, you would be less likely to get help than if there were only one or two people around you.

The group found that people with the CR or RR genotypes — which together occur in about 15 % of the population — are nearly three times less likely to suffer a heart attack than are people with the CC genotype.

This meant they were about 15 % less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke or die from cardiovascular disease.

Patients seen by a primary care physician were 7 percent less likely to have a heart attack or die compared to those patients who sought no follow up care.

Patients seen by their cardiologist were 15 percent less likely to have a heart attack or die within the first year, compared to patients who received follow up care from their primary care physician.

The Nurses» Health Study revealed a «very strong link» between walking and protection against heart disease: Women who walked an average of three hours a week were 35 percent less likely to have a heart attack over an eight - year period than those who walked less.

[Stephanie Chiuve et al., «Adherence to a Low - Risk, Healthy Lifestyle and Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death Among Women»] These preventive measures might be especially important for women, who are less than half as likely as men to be diagnosed with heart disease or dysfunction before a fatal attack.

Using drugs to lower people's systolic blood pressure, the pressure when the heart contracts, to less than 120 millimeters of mercury could cut heart attack, stroke and death rates.

When you weigh the risk of death by terrorist attack (less than 1 in 10,000) against that from heart disease or cancer (nearly 1 in 3), it makes much more sense to forgo the drama and join a gym.

Introduced in the late 1980s, they are now commonly used to open blocked arteries in acute heart attack cases, and to widen narrowed vessels in less severe cases of cardiovascular disease.

For example, a diseased heart after a heart attack exhibits a less pronounced left ventricular twist due to local damage that extends through the heart wall.

Coronary artery disease was more prevalent among women with low rates of sexual activity; and women who had suffered a heart attack, had a coronary artery bypass, or angina were also less sexually active.

Nor did the corn - oil group have less atherosclerosis or fewer heart attacks.

Chinese subjects who enjoyed spicy foods appeared to eat less salt and have lower blood pressure, potentially reducing their risk of heart attack and stroke, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertenheart attack and stroke, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal HypertenHeart Association's journal Hypertension.

In fact, using mice engineered to have extra copies of Xbp1s in the heart, Dr. Wang initiated heart attacks that were ultimately smaller and less harmful to the host.

Previous studies have found that middle - aged adults whose diet consists of a high proportion of fruits and vegetables are less likely to have a heart attack or stroke, but the relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption during young adulthood and heart disease later in life was less clear.

The clinical trial named METOCARD - CNIC is the first to test metoprolol therapy, at a cost less than three dollars (or less than two euros), in heart attack patients undergoing standard angioplasty treatment procedures.

According to Dr. Miedema, «The less stringent blood pressure goals will increase the number who are «at goal,» indicating to the patient and their primary care provider that treatment is not indicated when in fact treatment of their mildly elevated blood pressure may reduce their risk for a heart attack and stroke.»

«It's too early to tell, but if this translates into less heart failure, heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths, then this could mean that morbidly obese patients who have bariatric surgery obtain a cardiovascular risk comparable to a normal weight population.»

Richard Wiseman, professor in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, commented: «This is a huge rise, and the results are extremely worrying because getting less than seven hours sleep a night is below the recommended guidelines, and is associated with a range of problems, including an increased risk of weight gain, heart attacks, diabetes and cancer.»

These studies frequently combine DNA from hundreds of individuals to try to discern patterns of inheritance in a population — what percentage carry a version of a gene that might predispose to heart attacks, for example, and what percentage carry another, less harmful version.

She could expect to live to the age of 85 before having a heart attack / stroke and more than halve her 10 year risk to less than 0.25 %.

Moreover, it is less common for heart attacks in women to be triggered by a local narrowing of blood vessels that can be widened relatively easily.

It is now thought there are several explanations for this, ranging from a fall in infectious diseases enabling heart attacks to take the lead, to various changes in society that made lifestyles less healthy.

Patients who receive a drug - eluting stent (DES) and demonstrate high platelet reactivity on clopidogrel are more likely to have blood clots form on the stent and to suffer a heart attack; however, these patients are less likely to develop bleeding complications.

«Generally it's better to be tall because you have less risk of stroke and heart attack, and better survival,» continued Professor Rosengren.

Those with depression were significantly younger and more often female, diabetic, previously diagnosed with depression, and less likely to have presented with a heart attack compared to those who didn't have depression.

Among the more common causes are heart attacks and hypertension, but less frequently it... Continue reading Trial of gene therapy in heart failure launches following success in rats and pigs.

When used to treat mouse hearts after a heart attack, the Hoechst - IGF - 1 treated - hearts have better function and less scar tissue (seen here as red).

Thanks in part to NIH - funded discoveries, patients benefit from less invasive cancer treatments, therapies to prevent heart attack and stroke, and much more.

But the damage caused by a heart attack can result in heart failure — and patients diagnosed with heart failure have an average life expectancy of less than five years, according to Dr. Chuck Murry, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Less than half of women who filled a statin prescription following a heart attack received a high - intensity statin — indicating they continue to be less likely than men to be prescribed this lifesaving treatment, accordinLess than half of women who filled a statin prescription following a heart attack received a high - intensity statin — indicating they continue to be less likely than men to be prescribed this lifesaving treatment, accordinless likely than men to be prescribed this lifesaving treatment, according...

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News)-- In a surprising finding, people with sleep apnea appear to suffer less heart damage during a nonfatal heart attack than those without the condition, researchers report.

But non-STEMI heart attacks — about half of heart attacks treated — are somewhat less severe.